(1) Compare Wilbur’s playful verse in Opposites, More Opposites, and Runaway Opposites to Mary Hunter Austin’s child-centered Children Sing in the Far West.
(2) Contrast the post–World War II sensibilities of Wilbur’s “The Beautiful Changes” with the incisive scientific eye of William Carlos Williams’ “Queen Anne’s Lace.”
(3) What does the image of light in “A World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness” symbolize?
(4) Compare the kinetic images of Sandra Hochman’s “The Goldfish Wife” with Wilbur’s “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World.” Determine why he calls for “clear dances done in the sight of heaven.”
